This is why you want to remove as many intermediaries between your content and your audience as possible. Ideal scenario is your own ASN and a pipe with a commit and your own physical box. The only takedown target is your upstream bandwidth provider. From there you’re adding takedown targets: hosting provider, edge cache/firewall provider, commercial CMS, etc. So pick your middle ground carefully. I’d suggest that ch…
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CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
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Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#112I wonder to what extent companies consider the reputational damage these kinds of enforcement actions cause. I recently came across this when googling for information on a small Biotech startup: https://udrp.adr.eu/decisions/detail?id=65fab3e46fc02956a010... Will probably be the first thing I remember when I hear their name.
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#113What I don't understand is why companies and brands like this just don't use NameBlock or a similar domain blocking service like GlobalBlock. They literally can block domain names that have their company name or brand in them from being registered (up to 500 variations of their domain). It's literally like $99/year to place a block. Saves a lot of the hassle of having to deal with parody and phishing sites and trying…
https://globalblock.co/included-extensions/
I'm also seeing much higher pricing:
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#114FWIW: CSC is a company that other companies hire to act on its behalf. It's very likely that the company you work for uses CSC as it's registered agent in the State of Delaware for administrative purposes (CSC doesn't really do anything other than exist on paper and file annual forms to satisfy legal and compliance requirements necessary for companies to exist in the US). I wasn't aware they file DMCA requests on beh…
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
> There's "protecting your trademark from genuine copyright infringement" You mean "genuine trademark infringement".
Touché, thank you!
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#116FWIW: CSC is a company that other companies hire to act on its behalf. It's very likely that the company you work for uses CSC as it's registered agent in the State of Delaware for administrative purposes (CSC doesn't really do anything other than exist on paper and file annual forms to satisfy legal and compliance requirements necessary for companies to exist in the US). I wasn't aware they file DMCA requests on beh…
Maybe this will give them some empathy for their users who bought their services to protect their infrastructure.
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#117Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#118If ClownStrike wanted to take down the site they should deploy another buggy update. They will take the site down along with the rest of the Internet…
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#119Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#120FWIW: CSC is a company that other companies hire to act on its behalf. It's very likely that the company you work for uses CSC as it's registered agent in the State of Delaware for administrative purposes (CSC doesn't really do anything other than exist on paper and file annual forms to satisfy legal and compliance requirements necessary for companies to exist in the US). I wasn't aware they file DMCA requests on beh…
I actually thought CSC was a parody website ... it just seems a bunch of buzzword fluff and no products. Just "solutions" which at other companies is usually code for "we don't actually have anything to sell".